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Well said brother.
And surprisingly, it seems we are not ready to fix these issues up. Like you mentioned, the proverbs and riddles era is fast leaving us and yet we are not trying to join the rest of the world in keeping written records or other forms of documentation.
I just hope we wake up soon. Even if it not exactly the same format used by our counterparts from around the world, at least we should have our own way of keeping our records for future references.

djon78:
Yeah you are very right about not having a writing form of language in the ancient times.

I believe these was the major bane of Africa and it's affected us till this day

The Asians example had written language
These ability to write gave rise to them having deep philosophers

That's same pattern the Bible and Quran had
These two great books has produced some of the greatest philosophy thinking since the existence of Man

Take the Bible for example
It has influenced humanity thousands of years before

Like I mentioned Alexander the great, his grearest tutor was Aristotle
It was documented that Aristotle was so much influenced by the old testament of the Bible later in his days
He transferred that knowledge to his student Alexander the great and that's why Alexander never touched Jerusalem during his global conquest

It was said Aristotle in his later days converted to Judaism before he died.

So having a writing form of language would have perpetuated our philosophical thinking process

We still have philosophical thinking process in our clime especially in form of speaking with Proverbs

I am from the East and I know that when the elders commune
They do so mostly in Proverbs

Although we are losing it because the younger generation don't care about all these things


I remember while growing up if a grown up man is spoken to in riddles and Proverbs
If he doesn't understand it
He is jested that the dowry paid to marry his mother was in vain

I also hear deep Yoruba thinkers also always talked in riddles and Proverbs

Almost all African culture have deep riddles and Proverbs which showed that our forefathers were deep thinkers and philosophers


Thanks

Your question wasn't simple as you may think or as you think.
As an African, you can agree with me that our stories are mostly told rather than being written and so when you ask if there is any written record(s)documents) concerning Africa, then it seems somehow to me. Africans generally pass down informations through words and we both know that over time some of these informations will be forgotten due to newer events or stories being told.

Take for instance, as an African; do you write down every activities of yours on a daily or maybe part of your core daily activities in any book, so that you can refer to in the future or better still, do you snap pictures or make video recordings everyday for record purpose?
To me, because they're no written documents concerning Africa that we can hold on to like our European counterparts doesn't mean Africa/Africans were doing nothing. If maybe there is nothing like written records, I bet you won't be asking this question.

djon78:
I asked a very simple question


What were Africans doing then?

Is there any written documents anywhere concerning Africa

Even the Chinese, Indians, Koreans have documented written of there history 2000years ago

The only documented African country is Ethiopia.
It was known as cush in the Bible

Simon of Cyrene that helped Christ to carry his Cross on the way to crucifiction was a black man

And in the book of Acts in the Bible the Ethiopian Eunuch was mentioned


This is an intellectual discuss
Not fighting

Thanks

Then that must be the 8th wonders of the world. But as the saying goes "This is Football and anything can happen" Let watch and see.

baralatie:
Chelsea will win all their matches

Chelsea's rather hellish run begins on October 21st when they host Arsenal at Stamford Bridge, followed a week later when they take on Brentford.

On November 4th, Chelsea travel to North London to take on Tottenham Hotspur, before hosting champions Manchester City the following week.


After the November international break, Pochettino's side have a trip to St James' Park to take on Newcastle United, before hosting Brighton & Hove Albion the following weekend.

And after taking on the Seagulls, Chelsea face a midweek trip to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United, just a few days before they stay in the North West with a trip to Goodison Park with a clash against Everton.

Could this be relegation loading?

The tournament takes place too frequently.
Maybe it should be hosted after 3yrs or once in 4yrs.
By the way, has CAF sort out the TV right issue with beIN sport?

My own bi say, I dey wait to hear wetin Portable go talk say cuz this guy death. Becuz na only him fit open mouth waaa talk everything and even more.

Just like there are Chinese Americans, we will soon be having Yoruba Americans as the years go by.

Go to the dessert and get a pay day but when you go to America, it for the love of Soccer.

Have you come across the Ighalo interview of him talking about those claiming they are going to the desert for the passion they have for Football?


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a GOAT has nothing to do with the Desert, Camel, Camel rule the Desert.

The only GOAT is in America redefining, reshaping, redesigning the whole of American Soccer.
Give the guy his flowers because he deserves every color known to man.

First, calm down and check, and recheck before posting because so many typos in this your story.

Secondly, you two lodged. What was the occasion for the lodging?

She is dating but she still gives you her attention, support, care, etc. Bro, if that girl dey into you as you claim, you for no hear of the other man.

Comot mind from dating her then simply return the energy wey she dey give then try to enjoy every moment with her cause you don't know when gon be the last. Or just maybe, to be sure of things with how she feels for you, try and come up with "I just got to know this new girl in my neighbourhood" lie and see how she will react to you having another girl who will soon be ending your feelings towards her.

So how do one explain the fact that Greenwood and the supposed attacked/abused lady are not just together currently but also had a child recently?

At the end of the day, the Club's image got to be protected before that of any employee of the club.

Something wey bi say them for give Wike Minister of Communication make that man insult everybody including who appoint am.

Poverty and Lighting in the skies.

Lighting freak shit out of me.
Grand ma once told when someone have dispute with another person, my great grand dad was a man who any of the person can meet to send thunder after the other which according to the story, my great grand dad performed his paid job perfectly and since the day the story was told to my hearing and till tomorrow, I have never found lighting in the skies to be funny, kinda of keep having that feeling of "the evil men do lives after them". As in, each time I hear or see lighting, I got that weird feeling that an aggrieved family member of those affected in the past by my great grand pa's deeds is now trying to return the favour to my great grand dad's offsprings.

"only the real fit to recognize" (in Omah Lay voice)
Na large crowd nai make Lagos look tough but those wey know, know say PH hide any other city for this federation by far distance when tough living as a topic come up.

Goodlyhrt:
Go PH you go know say Lagos dey play

Reading this just got me thinking maybe you live inside my head.

sunsweet33:
Most phoné phoné Nigerians just end up sounding stupid. The Indian people you mentioned can polish themselves up but not to the extent of mimicking British English.

If I’ve gotten the lady correctly these people basically want her to prime their kids so that they will be able to assimilate well once they travel abroad for studies.

From that angle I kinda get it but I severely doubt that it’s possible to imbibe an authentic British accent from some sporadic lessons in Nigeria.

This is how we lost the Benin Bronzes and countless other precious artefacts to the likes of these people. By being neither here nor there and blowing with the wind.

In the course of trying to be like English people, we are greatly harming our ways of doing things.
Are you aware that same Britain that colonized or should I say came to steal from Nigeria/Nigerians and as well force down their language on those then and the generation yet unborn (including you and I) are the same Britain that colonize India but listen to an Indian person speaking and you won't bother asking where he or she is from because they don't take English as a superior language to theirs.

sunsweet33:
This reminds me of my classmate. His father used to scold him for speaking Efik, warning him that it would affect his accent while speaking English.
And now he can’t remember how to speak it

But if it’s about good diction in English he sha has it

That is where the problem is bro.
Why don't we use our mother tongue(s) in our place of work or is it a crime/sin to use it?
Learn all the accent and English on earth, still you are no English and never will.
Even if I japa, by hearing me speak, the people or person should know that I learnt their language because they will still hear my mother tongue through how I'm speaking.
For instance, look at you and I discussing in their language and not in any of ours.

Jewessgratitud3:
Do you use your mother tongue at your place of work? Tomorrow you want to japa and study in the UK, Shey na your mother tongue you go use when you get there? Please I don't like arguing this with anyone.

E go pain me say this guy and Nkem Owo(Ukwa) no go act for any Hollywood movie till them retire.

No one should tell you that Slavery is going anywhere soon please.

The child is to be taught sound British accent but same child might hardly speak or understand anything in his or her mother tongue.

How many whites do you think teaches our languages or accent in any of their schools?

I keep saying this to people, there's nothing like favour, you did pay back in one way or the other.

DropsMic:
Nothing is free…

I really pity the african continent, especially the black parts.

Send him to the gallows.

Dele Alli's tell-all interview with Gary Neville featured a section on his birth parents, who he fell out of contact with after a troubled childhood.

By Dan Burnham (Sports Reporter)


Dele Alli has said he felt "betrayed" by his biological parents - who he no longer speaks to.

The former England international sat down for a candid interview with Gary Neville where he opened up on a number of moving topics, including childhood abuse and an addiction to sleeping tablets which he recently entered rehab for.

Dele also touched on his mum, 60-year-old Denise, and dad, 54-year-old Kehinde, who is a multi-millionaire businessman in Nigeria and a prince of the African nation's Yoruba tribe.

The pair split when he was young, leading to a tumultuous childhood which has had a major impact on his life ever since. Dele's mum, who was an alcoholic, gained custody of him.

He revealed he was molested by one of her friends at the age of six, and then became involved in dealing drugs aged eight before he moved to live with his dad in Lagos.

Reflecting on that period of his life, when he is said to have attended a private £20,000-a-year international school, Dele said on The Overlap: “My dad, my blood dad, lived in Africa.

"And then I got sent to him. I was meant to stay there for a year. It was horrible. I didn't want to be there at all. Nothing against, you know where I was, but just going from what I was living in, because we had no money - mum had no money.

“There was always like 10 guys, like just around, like just in the house. Yeah, like it was definitely like the drugs, but yeah, so there was that.

"And then it was just a big culture change, and I didn't want to be there, so I’d be a little bit naughtier and then after six months I got sent back.”

Dele ultimately ended up living with Alan and Sally Hickford, the parents of one of his team-mates in the MK Dons academy. He refers to them as his adoptive family, although that's never legally been the case.

“My adopted family did amazing things, because they would really piece things together," he continued. "There's a lot of things that I would question myself about because it went against my values and who I am as a person or what I want to do.

"And I'd question why I made them decisions, but they could link a lot of things. Like, for example, so I used to have like house parties, and I didn't care who was in the house whilst playing football.


"So, I'd have house parties and that was very much how my [biological] mum's house was without me knowing. It was my comfort zone – it was normal to me. So, just little things like that."


Denise and Kehinde gradually slipped out of Dele's life - so much so that he opted to wear 'Dele' on his back instead of his surname after signing for Tottenham in 2015.

They reunited to hold an interview with the Sunday Mirror after repeated attempts to see him - including standing outside Spurs' training ground and paying for a tour of White Hart Lane in the hopes of crossing paths - were unsuccessful.

Kehinde suggested his son was being manipulated for financial gain, saying: “I just do not understand what we have done wrong. He refuses to speak to me and it feels like he’s been taken from us. But I won’t give up on getting him back.”

Denise, meanwhile, added: “I’m a very miserable person because I get so sad that Dele is missing out on his family and we’re missing out on him.

“I want to be able to hug him and let him know we all love him to bits. I’m not interested in his money, I’d love him the same if he worked in McDonald’s. We just want our son back.”

Explaining why he froze them out of his life, Dele told Neville: “My dad went missing for a while, and he might come out now and say some stuff about me, but when I started playing for England, he came back and then I used to speak to my mum as well. Just to try and help her.

“I don’t speak to my mum anymore. So, when I was 18, my biological mum and dad went to the newspaper and like, started accusing the family that adopted me of doing all this stuff when they didn't know what they had, like they were the ones that used to make me go and see my mum.

Alli's biological parents made a public plea to see him again during his Tottenham days.

"I never wanted to go. They would always tell me, ‘She's your mum, like you should have a relationship with her’. And I think that spoke volumes, like what they were doing. They were just doing it generally because they're amazing people. So yeah.

“And then my mum – my blood mum and dad – went to the press saying that these people are taking advantage of me. They want to go through my contracts. And I hadn't spoken to him for years.

"I knew that wasn't my mum's decision because I know she didn't really leave Milton Keynes. Like there was no way she’d done that.

"So, yeah, after that I just felt so betrayed and let down. And hurt that I just couldn't keep the relationship with my mum. And my dad, I don't want a relationship with him either."

What's your view on Dele's behaviour towards his biological parents?

SOURCE: Daily star.co.uk/sport/football

Dear beloveth cold Mangu Orientation Camp.
Any Batch A 2019 set that camped in Mangu here?

I hope the number 7 will not Mount pressure on Mount....Drop mic!

But sir, are you aware that Bale is the most decorated British player?

Bahamas95:
Oga please remove Bale and Pogba from the list. They ain't legends or top players, they're average.

Yet Europe will remain home of Football.

Angelfrost:
He has won it all with Man City...! Best time to move on before benching starts!

A great age has truly ended in Football... All the legends and most of the top players have left Europe!

Messi - America
CR-7 - Middle East
Benzema - Middle East
Ibrahimovich - Retired
Bale - Retired
Ramos - Middle East (most likely)
Kante - Middle East
Pogba - Likely Middle East when he is ready to play again
Kane - Still Confused
Etc...

Omah Lay __ Reason

By Rachel Hagan World News Reporter.
21 Jun 2023UPDATED13:55, 21 Jun 2023


As global search and rescue teams sprint to find the submarine-like vessel that went missing in the Atlantic Ocean with five people on board, many are horrified that warning signs were ignored.

The OceanGate Expeditions vessel was set to reach the bottom of the sea to view the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday, but it lost contact around an hour and 45 minutes after it submerged.


Two British-based Pakistanis, a British billionaire, a Frenchman and an American are trapped on the vessel called Titan after they paid close to £200k for the experience.

And if the precious amounts of oxygen on the vessel have been running down at a steady level, it means there may only be around 24 hours of breathable air left.

As the clock ticks, previous concerns about the vessel have been circulating with some horrified the mission went ahead as OceanGate faced several warnings.



SIGNING YOUR LIFE AWAY

It has been revealed that travellers were warned before boarding the submarine that the vessel had not been approved or certified by any regulatory body and the trip could result in death.

Journalist David Pogue joined OceanGate on an expedition to the North Atlantic and kept the forms he had to sign before taking the expedition.

"'It has not been approved or certified by any regulatory body, and could result in physical injury, disability, motion trauma, or death,'” he read aloud to CBS, before jokingly adding, "Where do I sign?"

David said he was horrified to find the inside of the sub was similar to the size of a minivan and he said they use "off-the-shelf components" and lights from Camping World.

Simpsons writer Mike Reiss who also went on the trip has since expressed past safety fears and said it was "remarkable how basic and simple the whole operation" was.


Mike said: "To get on the boat that takes you to the Titanic, you sign a massive waiver that you could die on the trip.

"On the list, they mention death three times on page one and it's never far from your mind. As I was getting on the submarine, [I thought] this could be the end."

Other guests on previous trips said there were continual failures including radio outages and flickering lights.


'EXTREME' DANGER WARNING FIVE YEARS AGO

In 2018, OceanGate fired and sued David Lochridge, their director of marine operations, after they claimed he breached his non-disclosure agreement for saying passengers might be endangered in the craft when it reached "extreme depths."

According to a lawsuit, David's scathing assessment to senior leadership said there were "visible flaws" in the ship’s carbon fibre hull, "prevalent flaws" in a scale model, flammable materials onboard and key safety documents that were not shared with him.

"The paying passengers would not be aware, and would not be informed, of this experimental design, the lack of non-destructive testing of the hull, or that hazardous flammable materials were being used within the submersible," Lochridge's legal filing stated.

The document added that he believed the company could "subject passengers to potential extreme danger in an experimental submersible."

David alleged in the court filing that he had been wrongfully terminated and that his actions were aimed at ensuring the safety of passengers on the Titan.

SUBMARINE LEADERS WARN OF 'CATASTROPHIC ISSUES'

Nearly 40 top leaders from across the industry wrote to the Marine Technology Society in 2018 about the "catastrophic" concerns they had with the vessel.

The horror letter has been unearthed by the New York Times, in which executives, oceanographers and explorers all signed to say they expressed "unanimous concern" with its development.

The letter said that OceanGate’s marketing of the Titan had been "at minimum, misleading" because it claimed that the submersible would meet or exceed the safety standards of a risk assessment, even though the company had no plans to have the craft formally certified by the agency.


OCEANGATE PURPOSEFULLY AVIODED US REGULATIONS.

One signatory of the aforementioned letter, Bart Kemper, said in an interview that OceanGate had sneakily and purposefully avoided having to abide by certain US regulations by deploying the vessel in international waters.

Salvatore Mercogliano, an associate professor of maritime history at Campbell University in North Carolina also said this was true to the New York Times.

The Titan, owned by a US company, gets loaded onto a Canadian ship and then dropped into the North Atlantic.

Salvatore says this means it does not need to register with a country, fly a flag or follow rules that apply to many other vessels.

"It’s kind of like a boat on the back of a trailer. The police will ensure the trailer meets the requirements to be on the road, but they really won’t do a boat inspection," he told the paper.

PREVIOUS TECHNICAL ISSUES.

OceanGate successfully carried out the same trip multiple times in 2021 and while there were no deaths, numerous safety issues were listed in a lawsuit.

David Concannon, a lawyer and explorer who pulled out of this year's trip at the last minute, wrote the lawsuit document which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

"On the first dive to the Titanic, the submersible encountered a battery issue and had to be manually attached to its lifting platform", he wrote.

He also said the submersible sustained modest damage to its exterior and OceanGate had to cancel one of its mission so it could make repairs.

SOURCE: Mirror.co.uk/news

Here cometh the man, the Myth, the Legend.

How Pep and his crew of miscreants fu*k every hater up is what is sweeting me.
The whole of English League teams were against City b4 the UCL final.
Ntoor to them.

Okocha not winning CAF African Best Player in 2004.

Once is your year, is your year and this win just proofs that.


Build Pep a statue in front of the Etihad.


Redefine modern football and name it Pep.

You wey your family curse never leave you nai dey get time focus on other people curse abi?
The said Yaya Toure fellow, if not for Pep would he had won a UCL in his cursed life?

addexx:

INTER FOR THE WIN
INTER FOR THE WIN
YAYA TOURE CURSE STILL ACTIVE
YAYA TOURE CURSE STILL ACTIVE
BET WITH YOUR LIFE SAVINGS
BET WITH YOUR LIFE SAVINGS
CELEBRATE AFTER THE WIN.
CELEBRATE AFTER THE WIN